1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying | Idea |
Chilling condemnation of those selling abstract deliverables | Article |
As I read this article in MIT's The Tech it left me feeling slightly ill. Back came all the memories. This article isn't just about what a crock of s**t consulting often is. It pertains to many industries selling abstract outcomes for lots of money, such as... oh, um... software. Never before have I seen the truth so bluntly told about selling clients what they want not what is good for them.
Batten down the hatches | Idea |
I see a lot of fiddling while the economy burns. In fact there appears to be an air of "phew that's over". The recession drops off the media's radar thanks to their infantile attention spans. Please be aware that this recession hasn't even started - and plan your coming years accordingly.
The 7 Top Reasons Why You Can’t Quit Your Job | Article |
7 You are afraid of the unknown
You are worried about not knowing what will happen to you. You can drive half-a-ton of steel at sixty miles an hour inches away from other vehicles, and trust their drivers to do the same. You can purchase and eat food that you didn’t see being cooked. You can enter a convenience store after nightfall. You regularly plug and unplug cables carrying 120 volts (or 240 volts) of lethal electricity. Heck, you pipe the stuff through a pad in your bed. But changing jobs is really dangerous.
6 It is comfortable where you are.
What Matters | Article |
Geeks and the Meaning of Life
by Rob England
Originally (and better) titled "What Matters". Not about geeks at all.
How Secure is Your IT Technical Career? | Article |
How Secure is Your IT Technical Career?
by Rob England
Here's an article to put the wind up complacent geeks.
Determining priorities | Text |
When one spends 50 or 60 hours a week immersed in an activity (does anyone reading this still work 40 hours or less?), it is easy to lose one’s perspective on just where that activity should rate in our lives.